Clinical Nursing Skills and Techniques

**2026 PROSE Award Finalist in Nursing & Allied Health Services**

Learn the clinical nursing skills you will use every day and prepare for success on the Next-Generation NCLEX^(R) Examination! Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques, 11th Edition provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced skills. With more than 1,200 full-color illustrations, a nursing process framework, and a focus on evidence-based practice, this manual helps you learn to think critically, ask the right questions at the right time, and make timely decisions. Written by a respected team of experts, this trusted text is the bestselling nursing skills book on the market!

• Comprehensive coverage includes more than 200 basic, intermediate, and advanced nursing skills and procedures.
• Rationales for each step within skills explain the "why" as well as the "how" of each skill and include citations from the current literature.
• Clinical Judgments alert you to key steps that affect patient outcomes and help you modify care as needed to meet individual patient needs.
• UNIQUE! Unexpected Outcomes and Related Interventions sections highlight what might go wrong and how to appropriately intervene.
• Clinical Review Questions at the end of each chapter provides case-based review questions that focus on issues such as managing conflict, care prioritization, patient safety, and decision-making.
• More than 1,200 full-color photos and drawings help you visualize concepts and procedures.
• Nursing process format provides a consistent presentation that helps you apply the process while learning each skill.

• NEW! All-new Clinical Judgment in Nursing Practice chapter incorporates concepts of the NCSBN clinical judgment model
• Updated evidence-based literature is incorporated throughout the skills
• NEW! End-of-chapter questions and end-of-unit unfolding case studies provide optimal preparation for the Next-Generation NCLEX^(R) (NGN)